End of Week One

Yesterday marked the conclusion of the first full week of trials over the Dover, PA School Board?s decision to include intelligent design in the science curriculum. This week was devoted to the plaintiffs? witnesses. Lawyers questioned Drs. Kenneth Miller, a Brown University cell and molecular biologist, Robert Pennock, professor of science and philosophy at Michigan State, and Jack Haught, professor of theology at Georgetown University. The professors ? presumably picked from hundreds of scientists who could reasonably explain the tenets of scientific investigation, the nature of fact and theory, and reasons that intelligent design doesn?t fit any of these frameworks ? appear to have performed admirably. Here we had an honest-to ? well ? we had a real science-on-trial type case. Although a cute highlight, brilliantly teased out by columnist Mike Argento, appeared to have dipped a fair stretch down the rabbit hole. Any reasonable person should notice the straw ...